Sproul - a great man of God.”īorn in Pittsburgh in 1939, Sproul graduated from Westminster College, which he attended on a football scholarship.
Yet we can rejoice because we know where he is and the separation is only temporary. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary president Paige Patterson, who joined Sproul and some 200 other evangelical leaders in 1978 to help craft the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, told Baptist Press, “Any time the Christian community loses a faithful leader who has impacted untold numbers for Christ, Christians are poorer. He was rigorously biblical and ruthlessly logical … with a smile.”
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“When he defended Reformed theology, he taught us all how to understand the Gospel in terms of God’s eternal purpose to save, consistent with His sovereignty. “When taught about the holiness of God, a generation of evangelicals was rescued from the emaciated and desiccated theology of cultural Christianity,” Mohler wrote in a Dec. Mohler, a teaching fellow at Ligonier Ministries, called Sproul “the greatest and most influential proponent of the recovery of Reformed theology in the last century.” Sproul’s tape-recorded lectures helped Mohler work through “big theological questions that had me by the throat” as a teenager in the 1970s, Mohler said.
Hawkins, the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s Russell Moore and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary’s R. Ligonier’s mission is “helping Christians know what they believe, why they believe it, how to live it and how to share it,” he once said.Īmong Southern Baptist entity leaders that paid tribute to Sproul on social media upon learning of his death were Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Jason Allen, GuideStone Financial Resources’ O.S. Sproul was known for delivering uncompromising messages on the holiness and sovereignty of God in his writing, video teaching series, and as a regular speaker at Ligonier’s national conferences in Orlando, Fla. Robert Charles “R.C.” Sproul, the Reformed theologian, pastor, teacher, and lecturer who founded and chaired Ligonier Ministries and authored close to 100 books, including “The Holiness of God,” died Dec. Written by: WORLD News Service and Baptist Press